Grampy0729

Bought this camera from Woot a while back. WiFi backup is the selling feature for me. No more fiddling with cables or SD cards. Slight shutter lag, but not a big problem. Flash eats up the battery fast. Also the autofocus occasionally takes a little longer than I'd like. Zoom isn't that great, you may want to buy another lens if you go for distance. Get yourself a lens cap tether for it, it's easy to loose. Even with the faults I've mentioned, I still like the camera, I'd give it 4 out of 5.

imscience

I have the OIS 18-55mm lens, which is fantastic. I was going to deride the 20-50mm as being the old, obsolete one, but it is not; it is actually newer, lighter, an inch shorter. I don't know how much OIS helps me on my lens, but losing weight and length count a lot in my book. I wouldn't disparage this lens. I will, however, disparage Samsung for their vaporware: they are fond of announcing lenses that never make it to market. Still awaiting the 45/1.8 lens announced last September (also no OIS... I'm thinking it's really not that big a deal on short and faster lenses).

Druple

Watch out! You are playing refurbish roulette! I recently pulled out a Polaroid camera I got on woot a couple of summers ago. The battery was dead. I tried to get some help from wsc, but they gave me some links to buy a replacement. Being a good wootbot, I purchased a new battery, which died in the camera! I was beginning to wort (worrying about a woot purchase), thinking that the camera was at fault. After I was sent a replacement battery, the camera killed it, too. So I have lost over a hundred dollars on this steal. Thanks so much; I am not a rich person who can purchase a smart phone with a camera, so now I have a camera that will cost me more money in batteries. So woot is PURE RIP OFF!

ducss750

Druple wrote:Watch out! You are playing refurbish roulette! I recently pulled out a Polaroid camera I got on woot a couple of summers ago. The battery was dead. I tried to get some help from wsc, but they gave me some links to buy a replacement. Being a good wootbot, I purchased a new battery, which died in the camera! I was beginning to wort (worrying about a woot purchase), thinking that the camera was at fault. After I was sent a replacement battery, the camera killed it, too. So I have lost over a hundred dollars on this steal. Thanks so much; I am not a rich person who can purchase a smart phone with a camera, so now I have a camera that will cost me more money in batteries. So woot is PURE RIP OFF!

A few points:
1) This camera is new: Condition: New 2) You left the battery in an electronic device for 2 years without using it? That is probably the root of the problem. If there was any residual power draw the battery was drained and possibly damaged. Even if there wasn't, it's a good rule to NEVER leave batteries in an unused device. Neglect is a real electronics killer.
3) Basic phone (not even necessarily smartphone) with halfway decent camera = FREE from most cell phone providers.
I understand frustration, but you're aimed at the wrong target...

olebelringer

Samsung web site has two firmware updates, one for the camera body and one for the lens. Update for the body went fine but lens update would not work. Tec. support did not have a clue, did not even know about the lens update until they checked the web site. Attended an event and took a few photos, camera stopped working several times, just froze even off switch would not work. Had to remove and reinstall the battery to get it to work again as advised by tec. support. Missed several shots of grandchild activity. Returned the camera.

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